Source: http://vimeo.com/49976070
The war on drugs is both a failure and institutionalized racism writ large.
(Source: onlyexperiments)
The most remarkable thing about coming home to you is the feeling of being in motion again. It's the most extraordinary thing in the world.
Why am I the Arkadelphian? Ask me anything (provided what you're asking isn't lame).
Why am I the Arkadelphian? Ask me anything (provided what you're asking isn't lame).
November 13, 2012
October 30, 2012
In his farewell address on January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a “military-industrial complex.”
Perennially relevant.
October 23, 2012
“The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.”
I’m honestly not sure what LQ is going for with this, but I like it.
October 5, 2012
![theatlantic:
Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers
The facts as I see them are clear and damning: Baby boomers took the economic equivalent of a king salmon from their parents and, before they passed it on, gobbled up everything but the bones.
Ultimately, members of my father’s generation—generally defined as those born between 1946 and 1964—are reaping more than they sowed. They graduated smack into one of the strongest economic expansions in American history. They needed less education to snag a decent-salaried job than their children do, and a college education cost them a small fraction of what it did for their children or will for their grandkids. One income was sufficient to get a family ahead economically. Marginal federal income-tax rates have fallen steadily, with rare exception, since boomers entered the labor force; government retirement benefits have proliferated. At nearly every point in their lives, these Americans chose to slough the costs of those tax cuts and spending hikes onto future generations.
Read more. [Image: Rob Finch Visuals]
This is a lot more nuanced and thoughtful than this blurb would indicate.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbfo8zTyFv1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers
The facts as I see them are clear and damning: Baby boomers took the economic equivalent of a king salmon from their parents and, before they passed it on, gobbled up everything but the bones.
Ultimately, members of my father’s generation—generally defined as those born between 1946 and 1964—are reaping more than they sowed. They graduated smack into one of the strongest economic expansions in American history. They needed less education to snag a decent-salaried job than their children do, and a college education cost them a small fraction of what it did for their children or will for their grandkids. One income was sufficient to get a family ahead economically. Marginal federal income-tax rates have fallen steadily, with rare exception, since boomers entered the labor force; government retirement benefits have proliferated. At nearly every point in their lives, these Americans chose to slough the costs of those tax cuts and spending hikes onto future generations.
Read more. [Image: Rob Finch Visuals]
This is a lot more nuanced and thoughtful than this blurb would indicate.
October 3, 2012
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If the New York Times was constantly searching for archival footage to prove that Mitt Romney doesn’t like black people, or that he is “whipping up race hatred,” the conservative media would accuse them of frivolously ignoring the actual issues that this election ought to turn on. It would say that they were exploiting the racial anxieties of Americans to tarnish the character of a man whose long record of public policy-making shows no evidence of racial animosity or radicalism.
When it comes to racial demagoguery, the right has become everything it says it hates about the left.
"— Conor Friedersdorf, on the race-obsessed right. (via theatlantic)
(via theatlantic)
September 11, 2012
Thanks for clearing that up for us, NPR.
This is amazing.
September 8, 2012
1956
This ain’t your grandfather’s Republican Party…
It’s sometimes dizzying how far the coalitions which political parties hew to can shift over time.
(via shortformblog)
August 22, 2012
Cartoon of the night by Benjamin Schwartz. For more: http://nyr.kr/QT7qx9
August 8, 2012
Step One: Sign up for all promotional email as “boo,” “baby girl,” or “cookie love.”
Step Two: BE DELIGHTED FOREVER.
August 2, 2012
Someone posted this on YouTube and now I am posting it here.
It’s about “struggling” with not eating at a chain of garbage restaurants that regard some people as either abominations or, at best, willfully abnormal.
In a nutshell: now you know!
(Source: paulftompkins)
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